Charles G. Boyd

Background

Mr. Charles G. Boyd is a Director of Forterra Systems, Inc. He is a Member of Board of Trustees of In-Q-Tel, Inc and a Director at Business Executives for National Security. Mr. Boyd has been a Director of DRS Technologies Inc., since August 3, 2006. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer at Business Executives for National Security. Before joining BENS, Mr. Boyd served as a Senior Vice President and Washington Program Director of the Council on Foreign Relations. ... He was commissioned through the aviation cadet program in July 1960 and retired in 1995 after 35 years of service. A combat pilot in Vietnam, he was shot down on his 105th mission and survived 2,488 days as a prisoner of war. The only POW from that war to achieve the four-star rank, Mr. Boyd's final military assignment was as a Deputy Commander in Chief of United States forces in Europe. His other assignments as a General Officer include Vice Commander of Strategic Air Command's 8th Air Force, Director of Plans at Headquarters United States Air Force in Washington, D.C., and Commander of Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He is a Command Pilot with more than 3,000 flight hours. Following his retirement from active duty, Mr. Boyd served as the Director, 21st Century International Legislators Project for the Congressional Institute, Inc. and Strategy Consultant to then Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. In July 1998 he became Executive Director of the Hart-Rudman National Security Commission, which foresaw the growing terrorist threat to the United States well before the September 11, 2001 attacks and advocated priority attention be devoted to homeland security. His military decorations include the Air Force Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star with combat “V“ and two oak leaf clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Purple Heart with two oak leaf clusters. Mr. Boyd is a graduate of the University of Kansas, the Air War College, as well as the Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at Harvard University.

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